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Mrsgio

Come on Brent, thats not fair, you know each one of the legislators didn't sleep for days wondering you would get that precious bed tax money, spent hundreds of waking hours calculating and devising a comprehensive spending schedule for distributing those few dollars.

And the budget, since most expenses are mandated and already established by contractual obligations, discretionary spending which are repetitive from yr to yr keeps the legislators busy asking the county employees the same explorative questions every fiscal budget period.

Brent1

Was it dividing up the bed tax?, Maybe approving the budget after the county employees spent hundreds if not thousands of hrs on its preparations. How about reviewing the studies from outside sources dealing with the lake situation? Maybe a few phone calls and web searches dealing with the sale of the county home?

carlaw

Why on Earth would anyone want career politicians to serve on the local level, or any level for that matter. The Idea is to have regular citizens represent us and term limits so more people can serve. it should be an honor, not a career.

Orangeman

Why is it that have allowed for decades part time legislators in Chautauqua County?

Id much rather see a group of say 7 Legislators all of which run County wide just like the Executive, Clerk, DA and Sheriff do, get a salary of like $60,000 each and go to mayville.everyday and work on the pro and issues full time.

Orangeman

Why is it that have allowed for decades part time legislators in Chautauqua County?

Id much rather see a group of say 7 Legislators all of which run County wide just like the Executive, Clerk, DA and Sheriff do, get a salary of like $60,000 each and go to mayville.everyday and work on the pro and issues full time.

factsout

I will agree that the County Executive is underpaid; but that said I thought we were cutting the number in the Legislature to "save money" so now we are spending the money "saved" to increase their salaries? This makes no sense with the condition the economy is in. You know when you run what the salary is if you don't like it don't run!